An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden

by Mary Schmidt Campbell

Book Overview

By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America. As Mary Schmidt Campbell shows us in this definitive, defining, and immersive biography, the relationship between art and race was central to his life and work -- a constant, driving creative tension. Bearden started...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195059093
• ISBN13: 9780195059090
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"